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State % of Obese
Adults Rank
Alabama 28.4 1
Mississippi 28.1 2
West Virginia 27.7 3
Indiana 26.0 4
Kentucky 25.6 5
Arkansas 25.2 6
Georgia 25.2 7
Michigan 25.2 8
Tennessee 25.0 9
Ohio 24.9 10
Louisiana 24.8 11
Texas 24.6 12
South Carolina 24.5 13
Oklahoma 24.4 14
North Carolina 24.0 15
Delaware 24.0 16
Iowa 23.9 17
Nebraska 23.9 18
Pennsylvania 23.8 19
North Dakota 23.7 20
Missouri 23.6 21
Alaska 23.5 22
California 23.2 23
Illinois 23.2 24
Minnesota 23.0 25
South Dakota 22.9 26
Kansas 22.6 27
Maryland 21.9 28
Idaho 21.8 29
Virginia 21.7 30
Washington 21.7 31
Oregon 21.5 32
Nevada 21.2 33
New York 20.9 34
Wisconsin 20.9 35
Utah 20.8 36
District of Columbia 20.3 37
New Hampshire 20.2 38
New Mexico 20.2 39
Arizona 20.1 40
New Jersey 20.1 41
Wyoming 20.1 42
Florida 19.9 43
Maine 19.9 44
Vermont 19.6 45
Connecticut 19.0 46
Montana 18.8 47
Rhode Island 18.4 48
Massachusetts 16.8 49
Hawaii 16.4 50
Colorado 16.0 51
Total average 22.8

Forty-one states have adult obesity rates topping 20%, though federal health goals aim to drop the obesity rate to 15% by 2010. Alabama remains the heaviest state with 28.4% of adults obese, while Colorado is the lightest with 16%. Diabetes, a major complication of obesity, affects more than 6% of adults in 40 states, the report says.

SOURCES: "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing America," Trust for America's Health, Oct. 20, 2004. Shelley Hearne, executive director, Trust for America's Health. Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association.
Found on MSN.com 10/24/04

engfant

Nope. Massachusetts ONCE AGAIN coming out above the national average. Some people just CAN'T TAKE IT when Mass DOMINATES in everything. Football, Baseball, Politics. Where's Texas? Oh that's right, WAY WORSE than the national average. Suck at EVERYTHING. Only thing they got going is Anglecat's tanning salon (if you are IN FACT from Texas)

angelcat04

Thanks!

pam

Figures..Indiana is 4th! Fortunately, I am not in that group!

DWhite6872

you have to be good at something.....Ohio people are large....there is a "commit to be fit" for Columbus....that is why we have had 38 level one beds.....

JIMJEN

Illinois is 24th - I have got to visit Alabama and see how they reinforce their lay down beds. Anyone from Alabama - as an additional retail item maybe a Hostess stand. Free package of Twizzlers w/lotion purchase. Giant Hershey bar with membership signup. Oh the possibilities.

ALOHATANCA

LOL..I am surpised that Calif. isn't high on the list......

Kay

Since 1958 sugar consumption has tripled in this country, so has Diabetes, Obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder etc. Have you looked around at the kids these days? They’re wearing an adult large by the time they’re 12 years old! It’s undeniable, obesity is becoming an epidemic

TINYe

Well, I knew AR would be high up there with all of our southern cooking and such. O'well pass the fried chicken!!

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COCONUT

i am hungary ...could use some.